Daniel Colaner captured international media attention at the age of 12 with his same-day performances on piano at Carnegie Hall and on organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Since then, his talents have been showcased on ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, The Harry (Connick Jr.) Show, and the BBC World Service Newsday. He has been featured on the NPR radio show From the Top (Show #377) and on PBS with the American Pops Orchestra. In 2023, he made his orchestral debut with Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante under Carlos Kalmar.
He is a member of The Diapason magazine’s “20 Under 30” Class of 2021 and a 2023 National YoungArts Winner with Distinction in Organ/Classical Music. Last year he was able to play the Great Organs of Paris as the winner of an Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship and is a proud recipient of this year’s Bart Pitman Memorial Keyboard Scholarship sponsored by the Delaware Valley Music Club.
He has been a top prize winner at numerous organ competitions, including the Arthur Poister Organ Competition and the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition (HS Division). His recent success at the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition also garnered him the Bach Prize as well as future engagements at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, New College, Oxford, Manchester Cathedral, and a Bach Corner concert at the St. Albans International Organ Festival.
As a prize-winning pianist and chamber musician, he has performed Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Euclid, Lakeland, and Suburban Symphony Orchestras. In addition to making music, Daniel's passions include promoting the benefits of classical music on both radio and television and raising funds for non-profit organizations that support music therapy and music education.
His exposure to classical music as a pediatric cancer survivor unleashed his passion for the piano at age 5 and the organ at age 10. He received his pre-college music education at the Cleveland Institute of Music and as a private organ student of Dr. David Higgs. He is currently a first-year student of Alan Morrison at the Curtis Institute of Music through the generosity of the Dr. Mi Wha Lee Fellowship, and the Michael Stairs Organ Scholar at the Church of The Redeemer in Bryn Mawr.